DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

TechCrunch / 4/24/2026

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DeepSeek previews a new AI model it claims is narrowing the performance gap with frontier models.
The company says the new model is both more efficient and higher-performing than DeepSeek V3.2, attributing gains to architectural improvements.
DeepSeek reports that the model is approaching “almost closed the gap” results on reasoning benchmarks against leading models, including both open-weight and closed models.
The preview positions DeepSeek’s next-generation approach as a step toward competitive reasoning performance while maintaining efficiency improvements.

DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.